Top HitsQueen of Katwe (family drama, David Oyelowo. Rotten Tomatoes: 92%. Metacritic: 73. A New York Times Critic’s Pick. From A.O. Scott’s Times review: “‘Irresistible’ is one of those adjectives that critics should handle with utmost care. No matter how universally charming or winning a movie or a performance might seem to be, there is always a chance that somebody, somewhere, will be able to resist it. For all I know that may be the case with ‘Queen of Katwe,’ but if there is anyone out there capable of remaining unmoved by this true-life triumph-of-the-underdog sports story, I don’t think I want to meet that person.” Read more…)

Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (action, Tom Cruise. Rotten Tomatoes: 37%. Metacritic: 47. From Manohla Dargis’ New York Times review: “‘Jack Reacher: Never Go Back’ is the second movie that Tom Cruise has starred in as this title character. Let’s hope it’s the last. Mr. Cruise deserves better, as do his loyalists, who have stuck with him through the good and the bad, both in perfectly tailored roles that failed to impress audiences [‘Edge of Tomorrow’] and in roles that were unworthy of all his work and our love [‘Oblivion’]. In recent years, only the apparently indestructible ‘Mission: Impossible’ franchise has provided him with a steady vehicle for his talents as well as for a ride to box-office success.” Read more…)

Masterminds (action/comedy, Zach Galifianakis. Rotten Tomatoes: 32%. Metacritic: 47. From Glenn Kenny’s New York Times review: “‘I blame popular culture,’ Zach Galifianakis says at the start of this comedy, the ridiculousness of his Southern accent rivaling that of his very fluffy hairstyle. His character, David Ghantt — a real-life felon who took part in an ostentatious crime in the late 1990s — is rationalizing his own miscreant deeds for the audience of ‘Masterminds,’ a would-be memorable piece of popular culture that applies the TV-sketch-show-surreal-farce approach to a based-on-true-events caper picture.” Read more…)

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New ForeignThe Handmaiden (South Korea, thriller, Kim Tae-Ri. Rotten Tomatoes: 94%. Metacritic: 84. A New York Times Critic’s Pick. From Times review: “The art of the tease is rarely as refined as in ‘The Handmaiden.’ Set in Korea in the 1930s, this amusingly slippery entertainment is an erotic fantasy about an heiress, her sadistic uncle, her devoted maid and the rake who’s trying to pull off a devilishly elaborate con. The same could be said of the director Park Chan-wook, whose attention to voluptuous detail — to opulent brocades and silky robes, luscious peaches and creamy shoulders — turns each scene into an invitation to ooh, aah and mmm. This is a movie that tries to ravish your senses so thoroughly you may not notice its sleights of hand.” Read more…)

Mountain (Israel, drama, Shani Kein)

New American Back Catalog (post-1960)Love Affair (1994, romance, Warren Beatty. Rotten Tomatoes: 31%. From Janet Maslin’s 1994 New York Times review [requires log-in]: “Warren Beatty isn’t quite Cary Grant in ‘Love Affair,’ though he plays the same ladies’ man Grant made so fabulously debonair in Leo McCarey’s 1957 ‘An Affair to Remember.’ [Charles Boyer also played this role, in 1939.] Surprisingly, he isn’t quite Warren Beatty either. Never has Mr. Beatty seemed less foxy or confident than he does playing out this star-crossed romance opposite his real-life spouse, Annette Bening, who has the once glamorous Deborah Kerr role [played earlier by Irene Dunne]. A rule of thumb for male stars looking to set off flirtatious sparks: not with your wife, you don’t. Not on screen.” Read more…)

New BritishVictoria: Season 1 (historical drama, Jenna Coleman)

New DocumentariesHarry and Snowman (horse competition, heartwarming. Rotten Tomatoes: 93%. Metacritic: 74. A New York Times Critic’s Pick. From Helen T. Verongos’ Times review: “The Snowman of Ron Davis’s documentary ‘Harry and Snowman’ is a horse that melts the heart. Purchased in the 1950s for $80 off a truck bound for the slaughterhouse, Snowman became a champion show jumper. And that was only one surprise in the long friendship that began when this scruffy white gelding locked eyes with Harry deLeyer, who raised horses and taught riding at a girls’ school in Long Island.” Read more…)

Electric Boogaloo: The Wild Untold Story of Cannon Films (film history, Cannon Films, Yoram Globus, Menahem Golan. Rotten Tomatoes: 93%. From Manohla Dargis’s New York Times article: “Energetically directed by Mark Hartley, ‘Electric Boogaloo’ features the usual all-star talking heads, among them the Swedish slab Dolph Lundgren and the director Tobe Hooper, who made ‘The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part 2’ for Cannon. Mr. Hartley taps plenty of entertaining archival material, some dating from Mr. Golan and Mr. Globus’s scrappy start in Israel. Mr. Golan, who directed his share of movies and died in 2014, registers as the more flamboyant and touching of the two, partly because movies were clearly his life’s passion and not just a long hustle. The talking heads are informative and often entertaining and not only because a number of the Cannon grunts and glitterati take such joy in imitating Mr. Globus and Mr. Golan’s accented English.” Read more…)

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